1. If you are using several technologies, (e.g. Nuget, Maven, NPM, PyPi etc..) define a unique repository for each of them. By doing that you are making sure that all of the build requests are directed to the right place rather than going to a repository that may not even have the necessary packages. 2. … Continued

From our experience with thousands of Artifactory users we know one thing for sure: we don’t know better. Every organization does its ALM differently: artifact approval flow, snapshot retention policies, build-to-release flow, governance, needed metadata and much, much more – they are all different. We definitely have some ideas on how the build and deploy … Continued

Update Jul. 24th 2012: As of version 2.6.2 Artifactory also supports event-driven replication. Benefit from all the worlds: pull/push/event-driven!Working in distributed teams isn’t easy. There are time zone differences, language and cultural differences, and… data distribution. When the data you need is away, you are miserable. So, let’s fix it. Bring your data home Let’s take binary … Continued

During the last couple of years, continuous integration (CI) and automated release management methodologies have become much stronger in non-Java builds.Number of familiar tools are used for these methodologies, like the version control system to manages your sources, your build tool to actually build your software from sources and your build server, which builds your software continuously using … Continued

The problem of dependency management is neither new nor original, it exists in all development platforms, and .NET is no different.Let’s go through different solutions and see how they perform. I’ll list them here in no particular order.Keeping dependencies in your source controlThat’s a very popular solution, and for a reason. The benefits are obvious. … Continued

Since my first encounter with Gradle and Hans Dockter (TSSJS 2009 in Las Vegas), I slowly (but surely) started to use this new build tool in many environment and projects.Today, I’m hooked and I don’t think there is a better way to build!But, the main issue I encountered is how to convince other that Gradle is the … Continued

JFrog’s Continuous Integration and Build Seminar “To Build or Not to Be“, took place on July 1st, 2010 and was a big success.The sessions of Kohsuke Kawaguchi creator of Hudson and CEO of InfraDNA, and Hans Dockter creator of Gradle and CEO of Gradle Inc are now available online.Watch now the videos of “Gradle – A Better Way To Build“.and “Doing More with Hudson“ … Continued

Most of the issues encountered by JBoss developers with their new build infrastructure are discussed openly here. This is an important source of information about the problems encountered with a Hudson, Maven and Sonatype-Nexus integration. Since we (JFrog) worked on Hudson, Maven, and Repository Manager environment for many years, we provided some feedbacks to JBoss. … Continued

The one that talks, the one that does! In a blog “Why Putting Repositories in your POMs is a Bad Idea“, Sonatype “asked” the open source community to manage their Maven2 POM file correctly.This is a good and important request, since Maven will not work correctly: Over time (due to URL changes) In a closed … Continued